Soli Deo Gloria

If with all Your Hearts from Elijah Felix Mendelssohn

Ye people, rend your hearts, rend your hearts, and not your garments; for your transgressions the prophet Elijah has sealed the heavens through the Word of God. I therefore say to ye, forsake your idols, return to God; for He is slow to anger, and merciful, and kind, and gracious, and repenteth Him of the evil. “If with all your hearts ye truly seek Me, ye shall ever surely find Me.” Thus saith our God. Oh! that I knew where I might find Him, that I might even come before His presence!

On Eagle’s Wings Michael Joncas/arr. Mark Hayes

You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord, who abide in His shadow for life,
Say to the Lord: “My refuge, my Rock in whom I trust!”

And He will raise you up on eagle’s wings, bear you on the breath of dawn,
Make you to shine like the sun, and hold you in the palm of His hand.

The snare of the fowler will never capture you, and famine will bring you no fear:
Under His wings your refuge, His faithfulness your shield.

You need not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day;
Though thousands fall about you, near you it shall not come.

For to His angels He’s given a command to guard you in all of your ways,
Upon their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

Psalm 150 from Cycle of Holy Songs Ned Rorem

Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

Teresa Anstatt, soprano

Call to Worship

Invocation

•Hymn 5: God, My King, Thy Might Confessing Stuttgart

Prayer of Preparation

God’s Word Read: Mark 2:1–12 (page 837)

Sermon: Read Mark Learn...Forgiven Dr. Liam Goligher

•Hymn 246: Man of Sorrows! What a Name Hallelujah! What a Savior

•Offering Prayer

Offertory: Laudate Dominum Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be. World without end, amen.

Teresa Anstatt, soprano
Tenth Church Choir
Timothy Gonzalez, conductor

Prayer of Humble Access to the Table

We do not presume to come to this Your table, merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in Your manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under Your table. But You are the same Lord, whose nature is always to have mercy. Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, that as we eat this bread and drink this wine, we may lay hold of Your dear Son by faith, and know that eternal life that You offer us in Him. Amen.

Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper

Words of Institution

Distribution of the Bread: O Jesus, We Adore Thee (Trinity Hymnal 255) Meirionydd

Distribution of the Cup: My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less (Trinity Hymnal 522) St. Petersburg

Proclamation of the Mystery of our Faith: Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again!

•Hymn 263: Lift High the Cross Crucifer

•Benediction

•Choral Benediction: Threefold Amen Danish

Postlude: Prelude in A Major Johann Sebastian Bach

Serving this evening:
Rev. Deryck Barson, platform
Colin Howland, organ

About Worship

Reverence

Here indeed is pure and real religion: faith so joined with an earnest fear of God that this fear also embraces willing reverence, and carries with it such legitimate worship as is prescribed in the law. And we ought to note this fact even more diligently: all men have a vague general veneration of God, but very few really reverence Him; and wherever there is great ostentation in ceremonies, sincerity of heart is rare indeed.

John Calvin, Institutes, I.ii.2